Ben Affleck Reveals US Senator Patrick Leahy Has a Role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

BvS star Ben Affleck appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Diplomacy and National Security on Thursday to discuss foreign aid to Eastern Congo (the Oscar winner founded the Eastern Congo Initiative).

During his opening remarks to the panel, Affleck revealed that committee member Senator Patrick Leahy (D - Vermont) appears in Batman v Superman.

See for yourself at roughly the 1:40 mark in this C-SPAN video:

There was reportedly a sequence shot for BvS last summer in Detroit that involved Superman and the United States Capitol building in Washington D.C. This would seem the most likely point for Senator Leahy to make his cameo.

Senator Leahy is a big Batman fan who has popped up in several past Bat-flicks, starting with 1997's Batman and Robin. His most memorable appearance in a Batman film is inarguably 2008's The Dark Knight where he played a party guest who mouthed off to Heath Ledger's Joker and got a knife put to his face for standing up to the Clown Prince of Crime.

Leahy also played a Wayne board member in The Dark Knight Rises, and voiced "the Governor of the Utah Territory" in the 1995 episode "Showdown" of Batman: The Animated Series.

With BvS now added to his filmography, this means Leahy has appeared in more Batman movies than Batman actors Christian Bale, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney ever did.